I don’t think anyone is advocating for centralized planning (which would be generally illegal anyway). But I do think an org-focused compensation strategy poses serious risks of drawing talent to the best-funded org rather than the org at which their marginal impact would be highest. In the for-profit world, the scrappy upstart can offer equity to compensate for lower base pay, but that’s not a thing in the non-profit world.
I don’t think anyone is advocating for centralized planning (which would be generally illegal anyway). But I do think an org-focused compensation strategy poses serious risks of drawing talent to the best-funded org rather than the org at which their marginal impact would be highest. In the for-profit world, the scrappy upstart can offer equity to compensate for lower base pay, but that’s not a thing in the non-profit world.